The process tackles two issues, the scientists said — an abundance of plastic waste and an increasing need for jet fuel.

A few products are just a little too iconic of our current environmental predicament. The Hummer. The computer you bought two years ago. The plastic bag. These items (and others) generate a lot of ...

The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on ...

With the amount of plastic swirling around in the ocean, wouldn't it be handy if the boats charged with cleaning it up could use the trash to fuel their own operations? A new study has crunched the ...

SITA UK, a subsidiary of the French waste management firm Suez Environnement, has signed a technology agreement with Cynar Plc to build a facility in the United Kingdom that will recycle end-of-life ...

SITA UK’s planning application to build a plastics-to-diesel facility in Avonmouth, Bristol, U.K. has been approved. “This is a landmark decision which will put Avonmouth at the forefront of the very ...

Diplomats negotiating guidelines for an international convention on hazardous wastes this month in Switzerland debated a new section on the “chemical recycling” of plastic debris fouling the global ...

The ‎Osun State Government has trained 1,000 youths and women on waste-to-energy, wealth-to-wealth skills, equipping the participants ...

A recycler drags a huge bag of paper sorted for recycling through a heap of plastic material at Richmond sanitary landfill site in Zimbabwe. A team of Chinese scientists has converted a common type of ...